Email accounts

@ossie16d (11821)

Australia

October 30, 2006 10:32am CST

How many email addresses/accounts do you have? Do you use separate email addresses for different things, i.e. one for personal friends and family, separate ones for forums, competitions etc. I have 2 email addresses and one of those is strictly for family and friends. The other one is for things like forums, competitions etc because they often gather a certain amount of junk mail so I would rather not have my personal inbox filled by spammers. Please share your opinion with us but we don't need to know your actual email addresses. LOL

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@caramello (4377)

• Australia

10 Jan 07

Hi ossie, I have one e-mail address and for me that is enough, as I have a hard enough time remembering that one. lol And I keep putting in different passwords for things, not a good idea either as keep getting them mixed up. (rolls eyes) Have been having withdrawels for the last couple of days as internet provider playing up so busy trying to catch up with my friends. lol And your not around! BooHoo.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

10 Jan 07

Gee I don't know if I could manage with only one email account simply because all the spam goes to one that isn't so important to me. Sad that I wasn't around caramello when you were here but "the child" wanted to use the computer. Anyone would think it was his, just because he bought it immediately before he went overseas last time. LOL

• United States

6 Nov 06

i have 2 aol accounts, and like 4 yahoo ones. i dont use the aol ones, they just came with my AIM screen name. the yahoo ones - 1 for everyday stuff (friends, family) another for affilliate programs, another for websites (ones i make) and another that used to be my main email for friends and family, but i dont use that anymore.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

6 Nov 06

All sorted into different sections and I agree that the ones for personal emails is the most important not to get bogged down with spam or junk mail. Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

6 Nov 06

All sorted into different sections and I agree that the ones for personal emails is the most important not to get bogged down with spam or junk mail. Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

8 Nov 06

I have given you a positive (+) rating for your response to this discussion. :)

@kylesmiles (1910)

• United States

30 Oct 06

What a great question... I guess I would be considered an email addict lol. I LOVE email and I have WAY TOO many accounts right now. I am really trying to cut down.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

31 Oct 06

I am not game to ask just how many email accounts you have then. LOL Thanks for your honesty and contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

5 Nov 06

I am giving you a positive for this response and hope that you can cut back on the number of email accounts, if that is what you want. :)

@SaraWinters (220)

• United States

1 Nov 06

I have 6 emails, I think. Most are yahoo. I use some of them because I don't want certain people to have my real email address, some to sign up for different services online, one because I have to have a publicly listed email address to join a certain website (which invites spammers--I had 1206 emails the other week), and one for work and correspondence with friends. I also have separate emails for my two paypal accounts, and my photobucket accounts.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

2 Nov 06

Spammers would not be a problem if they sent something other than junk, but then again they wouldn't be called spammers would they? Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

6 Nov 06

I have given you a positive (+) rating for your response to this discussion. :)

@thisisrightnow (537)

• United States

4 Nov 06

I only have one primary email address I use and check on a daily basis. I have a hotmail address which I use all the time and sign up for mailing lists and such. Then I have a Yahoo email address, and I use that for when I sign up for those survey sites and I don't want 4309434 emails to flood my other email. While my current email I use, most of it does go to junk mail, I do like to be able to filter through my junk mail and see what mail went there by mistake. That happens a lot especially when people email me back about jobs I've applied for. So it's definitely easier when I dont have everything going to one mailbox.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

5 Nov 06

Sounds like you have it pretty sell sorted out into different areas for your emails. Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

6 Nov 06

I have given you a positive (+) rating for your response to this discussion. :)

@sechsey (1831)

• Canada

16 Feb 07

I am the same with you as well. i have three accounts actually. One is an old one which i had before i thought of separating my accounts. It's now full of spam and forwarded nonsense. Second one is more legit. I have all my friends , families and some work emails as well. Third is for more like forums which i need to check from time to time but dont want to consider as spam.:)

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

17 Feb 07

Yes I too like to keep my email addresses separate, so the most important one which is for family and friends is not clogged up with other less important emails, or worse still the spam ones. Thanks very much for reading and responding to this discussion sechsey. :)

@sherinek (3320)

• United States

3 Nov 06

I have only one that is the Company maintained one. I really dont have time to operate a number of accounts. Also the company account is only handled by me. So privacy is guaranteed. (LOL)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

3 Nov 06

At least you have privacy and that is so important with emails. LOL Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

5 Nov 06

I have given you a positive (+) rating for your response to this discussion. :)

@ishavasyam (1801)

• India

8 Nov 06

Good question..as such I have got atleast 4 email addresses..but in long run I have seen that it is better thave only one operative email id...ne time we open the message is available..means dont have to remember to open a particular one...

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

9 Nov 06

Thank you for your response to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

9 Nov 06

Thank you for your response to the discussion. :)

@avrsriharsha (279)

• India

30 Oct 06

i have many 4 yahoo accounts,3gmail account,2 rediff acounts

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

30 Oct 06

You certainly do have a lot, or at least to me it seems like a lot. How do you manage to keep track of them all? Thanks for your contribution to the discussion. :)

@djbtol (5493)

• United States

3 Nov 06

I know that gmail is a pretty new thing. How do you like those accounts? I have not heard of rediff - what's up with them? thanks

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

6 Nov 06

I understand that you have to receive an invitation to get a gmail account, but like you I had never heard of rediff until myLot. :)

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@infoholics (492)

• India

30 Oct 06

i have 4-5 on yahoo.com...and 3-4 on rediffmail.com

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

2 Nov 06

You must be busy keeping track of them all. Thank you for your response. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

2 Nov 06

Thanks for your comment fun_muks. :)

• India

2 Nov 06

U dont know the exact no. of mail ids u have!?! How U r able use all these without even knowing how many u have!?!

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@juicemilk (2283)

• Australia

12 Nov 06

I have one for work, and then I have a yahoo, hotmail and gmail account. Plus the one that came with my ISP but I never use that one. The hotmail ones I use mainly for survey sites etc, the yahoo is my main one.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

15 Nov 06

Doesn't it make you mad when myLot does things like the number of comments to your last response.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

18 Nov 06

I have given you a positive rating for this one juicemilk but sometimes it doesn't seem to accept it. So hope that it works this time. :)

@juicemilk (2283)

• Australia

12 Nov 06

I have one for work, and then I have a yahoo, hotmail and gmail account. Plus the one that came with my ISP but I never use that one. The hotmail ones I use mainly for survey sites etc, the yahoo is my main one.

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@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

22 Nov 06

Thanks for responding, and I apologise for the delay.

@juicemilk (2283)

• Australia

12 Nov 06

I have one for work, and then I have a yahoo, hotmail and gmail account. Plus the one that came with my ISP but I never use that one. The hotmail ones I use mainly for survey sites etc, the yahoo is my main one.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

15 Nov 06

You have some separation in the different accounts then, which must make it a little easier for checking anyway. Thanks very much for contributing to the discussion. :)

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

15 Nov 06

This silly system seems to still have those hiccups when it puts everything in twice, or even three times some days. GRRRRR

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

15 Nov 06

This silly system seems to still have those hiccups when it puts everything in twice, or even three times some days. GRRRRR

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@oldboy46 (2129)

• Australia

11 Apr 07

We have 4 now. One of those is strictly for family and friends another is for competitions we enter, a third one for forums we join and the 4th is strictly for our organic farming business. that is enough .... we find that it takes a little while to check them all the time as some get a lot of spam .... still has to be checked though in case it is important. Mostly the spam that we do get is from the forums and competition email addresses and do not know how that happens .... all these sites say that your information is confidential and all that but somehow the spam seems to get through.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

12 Apr 07

Yes, we do seem to get spam in some of our email inboxes and I do know what you mean about how do these places get our information. I often wonder myself. Thanks for your response. :)

@caribe (2465)

• United States

5 Jan 07

I have a couple of yahoo accounts and a fairly new gmail account. I really don't like to have so many accounts. They are too difficult to keep up with so I mainly use one account.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

5 Jan 07

Definately agree with you caribe that too many different email addresses makes it difficult to keep up with all of them. Just reading through some of these responses made me realise how much time some people must spend logging in and out of their various email accounts. LOL Thanks for your contribution the discussion caribe. :)

@Piratesware (2888)

• Indonesia

16 Feb 07

well I has 2 email in use, in gmail and yahoo.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

17 Feb 07

It does seem that a lot of people use gmail. Thanks for reading and responding to the discussion. :)

@Shaun72 (15959)

• Palatka, Florida

10 Jan 07

I have more then I need 3 msn accounts and 2 yahoo accounts.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

10 Jan 07

It would probably be hard managing to keep up with that many but others have LOTS more than that going by some of the responses here. :)

• Vietnam

5 Jan 07

Yes, I use separate email for different mission one for fiends and family one for my job and one for joining forum and making money online

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

5 Jan 07

That makes sense to keep some separation for the different types of emails you might receive. :)

@villageanne (8553)

• United States

18 Jan 07

I have five email accounts. One for my programs that I am in. One for junk mail, one for family to use adn the rest I just use for anything. I check all 5 everyday.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

21 Jan 07

Yes I think it is important to keep one email address separate for family and friends, and no junk which seems to come with other sites we might belong to.

@jassi007 (234)

• India

17 Feb 07

two in yahoo and one in gmail.

@ossie16d (11821)

• Australia

17 Feb 07

Another one with a gmail account. What do you use each separate email account for, as you have 3 they must have different purposes? Thanks for reading and responding.